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Winner sold in New Hampshire RAYMOND, N.H. — Folks in New Hampshire are eager to learn who among them holds the winning ticket to a $487 million Powerball jackpot.New Hampshire lottery officials tod a television station someone bought the winning ticket at the local Hannaford supermarket in Raymond, a southern New Hampshire town of about 10,000.The winning numbers were 11-17-21-23-32, with a Powerball of 5.The lump sum option is worth $330.6 million.By midday Sunday, the jackpot winner in Saturday night’s drawing had not come forward. It was the eighth-largest U.S. lottery jackpot.New Hampshire had a lucky night. Someone in the northern New Hampshire town of Littleton was among 14 people in 10 states who won $1 million for matching the first five numbers.Someone in Pennsylvania bought a ticket worth $2 million.

Wildfires rage in CaliforniaBIG SUR, Calif. — A surging wildfire that broke out over the weekend in California’s Central Valley damaged homes and forced hundreds of evacuations, while a 10-day-old blaze on the Central Coast kept growing and causing problems for firefighters and displaced residents.The newer blaze south of the town of Prather about 30 miles northeast of Fresno had damaged some of the 200 evacuated homes in the area, but it wasn’t yet clear how many, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said Sunday.The fatal blaze north of Big Sur grew Sunday to 62.5 square miles, state fire officials said.The wildfire has destroyed 57 homes and 11 outbuildings and is threatening 2,000 more structures. It was 18 percent contained Sunday morning. More than 5,000 firefighters are battling the wildfire that killed a bulldozer operator working the fire line.

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